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Reshuffled England looking ominous as Italy suffer the same fate as Spain

England 56 Italy 13

Sarah Mockford

August 14 2017, 12:01am, The Times

Waterman went over twice as England ran in ten tries to sweep Italy asideDAVID ROGERS/GETTY IMAGES

Different team but same result for England. Simon Middleton made ten changes to the starting XV who put ten tries and more than 50 points past Spain in their opening game on Wednesday. Yet they repeated those feats against stronger opposition in Italy in Dublin yesterday.

Three 2014 World Cup winners — second row Tamara Taylor, flanker Marlie Packer and scrum half Natasha Hunt — as well as wing Amy Wilson Hardy all played their first part in this tournament and contributed to a more well-oiled performance.

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14 Kicks on goal that England have missed in their opening two World Cup matches against Spain and Italy.

“Italy are always a real challenge to play against and if they get any chance they ask a lot of questions of you, but we dealt with things really well and fixed up a few things we’d talked…